Georgia Tarheel Sportse

Team USA 99, Lithuania 94

Basketball fans see it every year in the NCAA tournament, or in the NBA's regular season. College teams, on their way toward playing in the first week of April, always tend to get that second round scare. NBA teams, no matter how dominant overall, see it routinely in regular season play. Matchups, in basketball, are key; and even teams that rank amongst the greatest ever can be challenged or even fall in a single contest if the matchups aren't in their favor. A day and a half after dominating Nigeria in a record-setting 156-73 blowout, Team USA could only eke out a survival win against a tough Lithuanian squad that matched up well at every conceivable angle.